Course Details

Foundation Engineering (V)

Academic Year 2025/26

BFA011 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1.-2. Introduction. Shallow footings for water and other structures.
  • 3.-4. Deep foundations – basic elements. Caissons, open caissons, piles and micropiles.
  • 5.-6. Classical injection in water structures. Water pressure tests.
  • 7.-8. Jet grouting – technology, jet grouting use.
  • 9.-10. Diaphragm walls – construction method and utilization. Encapsulation. Protection of waste dumps.
  • 11.-12. Foundation pits and their timbering. Cofferdams – types and using.
  • 13. Static design of both foundation pit timbering and coffers. Hydraulic stability of coffers.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction. Earth pressures.
  • 2. Shallow foundations. 1st a 2nd limit states.
  • 3. Programme Geo 5.
  • 4. Vertical bearing capacity of pile foundations, 1st limit state.
  • 5. Vertical bearing capacity of pile foundations, 2nd limit state.
  • 6. Design of gravity wall.
  • 7. Programme Geo 5.
  • 8. The design of freestanding sheeting wall.
  • 9. The design of anchored sheeting wall.
  • 10. Programme Geo 5.
  • 11. Dewatering of foundation pit.
  • 12. Individual consultations.
  • 13. Credit.